[Lockbox]

Let me get this correct, someone can make enough on Federal and State Assistance to qualify for a home mortgage? Wow! No wonder 94 million Americans have stopped looking for a job!

[Vigilanteman]

Lots of ways to play this game. One spouse goes on disability, the other spouse divorces but gets just enough of a paying job to also qualify for public assistance. They continue to live together and even though they are legally divorced, they can pool sufficient resources to qualify for a mortgage.

That's just one angle. There are many more. I've heard that your typical family (whatever the h3ll that means these days) can qualify for public assistance producing cash and non-cash benefits equivalent to a household earning about $60K annually, which is where I happen to be with full-time work.

If you look at what gets purchased with EBT cards in the supermarket line, I'd estimate close to two-thirds are buying stuff we can't afford and, as often as not, driving off in vehicles we can't afford either.

Even the blue collar production guys at the plant where I work notice this and wonder why they haul their bones out of bed every morning to work our 12 hour shifts when they see neighbors with fake disabilities and the like working the system for more.